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Postcolonial contraventions : cultural readings of race, imperialism, and transnationalism /

Laura Chrisman's Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader was published in 1993. It quickly became a landmark of postcolonial studies. This timely new book offers insights into the field she helped establish. Both polemical and scholarly, Postcolonial contraventions is challenging i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chrisman, Laura
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, [2003]
Colección:Online access: Manchester University Press Manchester Open Access.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tale of the city: the imperial metropolis of Heart of darkness
  • Gendering imperialism: Anne McClintock and H. Rider Haggard
  • Empire's culture in Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak
  • Journeying to death: Paul Gilroy's The black Atlantic
  • Black Atlantic nationalism: Sol Plaatje and W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Transnational productions of Englishness: South Africa in the post-imperial metropole
  • Theorising race, racism and culture: David Lloyd's work
  • Robert Young and the ironic authority of postcolonial criticism
  • Cultural studies in the new South Africa
  • 'The killer that doesn't pay back': Chinua Achebe's critique of cosmopolitics
  • You can get there from here: critique and utopia in Benita Parry's thought.